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Unified Comms Fails To Unify IP Vendors
Blog Unified comms involves bringing together voice, data, video and presence functionality, so a) everything happens over one network and b) you know where you contacts are. Cisco and Nortel are apparently partnering with Microsoft on unified comms...
[October 16, 2007, 14:04]
Unified Comms Fails To Unify IP Vendors
Blog Comment Nick - how can I agree more? It's absolutely imperative we don't have vendor lock-in. Surely open interfaces will be welcomed by most IT professionals, allowing them to build communications based on the vendors' offerings they want to choose.
[October 19, 2007, 9:42]
Unified Comms Fails To Unify IP Vendors
Blog Comment One of the problems of the Microsoft Office Communications Client/Unified Server combo is that the presence features in Microsoft Office will only work with Unified Communications server. Its effectively trying to leverage its quasi monopoly on the...
[October 17, 2007, 9:33]
Avaya Tackles 'economic Reality' With Unified Comms
News Avaya has launched a cheap unified-communications suite. The Avaya Unified Communications (UC) Solutions bundle is aimed at remote workers and branch offices, and starts at 15 pence per day, per worker.
[March 17, 2008, 15:18]
Gartner: Unified Comms Is Not About Saving Money
News Companies should roll out unified communications to improve productivity and collaboration rather than to save money, the analyst firm Gartner has said. Gartner surveyed 300 organisations and found that the mostly enthusiastically touted benefits...
[April 23, 2008, 17:10]
Siemens Launches Own Unified Comms Server
News Siemens has launched its first complete unified communications software suite, OpenScape Unified Communications Server. On Monday the company said the launch — which means Siemens unified communications (UC) customers no longer need to use...
[March 3, 2008, 11:25]
BT Launches Unified Comms System For SMEs
News BT has launched a Cisco-based unified communications package for small to medium-sized businesses. Unified communication solutions may be the difference between agility and fragility for SMEs in the battle to beat big business and respond to today...
[January 23, 2008, 13:49]
Cisco Flags Unified Comms Flaw
News Networking giant Cisco has warned of a flaw in its Unified Communications Manager software that could allow a remote, unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service condition or execute arbitrary code.
[January 17, 2008, 11:52]
Conflicting Strategies Aired At Unified Comms Show
News Echoing the latest industry buzzwords, this week's VoIP for Business event was re-named Unified Communications Expo. Communications vendors are now trying to offer more than just voice over a data connection by building in features such as presence...
[April 11, 2008, 12:37]
Microsoft And Cisco Divided Over Unified Comms
News The world's largest IT and communications vendors are divided in the way they intend to offer unified communications. Unified communications is an evolution of voice/data convergence that aims to bring together voice, data, video and presence...
[October 16, 2007, 16:23]
Unisys And NEC Team Up On Unified Comms
News Unisys and NEC have signed an agreement which expands their collaboration to include enterprise unified-communications offerings. Combining Microsoft technology, Unisys services and NEC solutions, the centres will be open to customers so they can...
[October 11, 2007, 16:15]
IBM Follows Microsoft With Unified Comms Push
News Following Microsoft's partnership with networking giant Cisco, the unified communications market is hotting up even further with IBM's launch of a new range of collaboration products. It plans to sell unified communications to smaller businesses as...
[August 24, 2007, 17:38]
Microsoft And Nortel Launch Unified Comms Partnership
News Microsoft and Nortel are to join forces to sell unified communications — products that integrate business applications with voice, video, email and instant messaging. The first product that will integrate Microsoft and Nortel technology to form a...
[January 17, 2007, 18:05]
Unified Communications In A Converged Network: Put Users In Charge Of Their Comms Experience
White Papers Unified Communications in a converged network that puts the user in charge of the communications experience and give businesses the return on investment they need to succeed in the digital economy. Increasingly, more businesses are moving beyond...
[September 13, 2004, 0:00]
Video Blog: Microsoft, Unified Comms And Kenny Everett
Blog Mark Deakin, Unified Communications product manager, Microsoft UK, also somehow managed to make the demo entertaining and avoid any major cock-ups. The launch of Microsoft's Office Communications Server at the IP07 conference yesterday was...
[October 17, 2007, 15:38]
Red Hat, Alcatel-Lucent Join Forces On Unified Comms
News Under this banner, the communications-equipment giant is focusing on unified communications systems, which it argues are critical for gaining access to the important knowledge locked up in different employees and parts of the enterprise.
[February 21, 2008, 17:06]
Gates Announces Push Into Unified Comms
News On Tuesday, Bill Gates took the stage in San Francisco to announce Microsoft's new line of software aimed at unifying voicemail, email and business meeting technology.
[October 17, 2007, 17:06]
Same Old Same Old - Who Needs It Unified?
Talkback Again we have IM as the new telegram or teletype and voice as voice for when it matters, but now with Mobile comms added for voice with the same text option using SMS to replace teletype, VM is an answeringmacine by another name.
[July 9, 2007, 9:33]
Microsoft, Nortel Line Up Today With Unified Alliance
Blog Unified comms, in case you've avoided the buzzword for the last 18 months, means bringing together desktop and PBX functionality to make it easier for users to make voice and video calls at their desk, and switch between such calls.
[January 17, 2007, 11:37]
Microsoft Set To Steal A March On Cisco
News Unified comms as a service According to analyst Infonetics Research, worldwide sales of unified comms products increased by 21 percent between 2005 and 2006, reaching £191m. As the chief executives of Microsoft and Cisco sought to settle their...
[August 23, 2007, 15:02]
